Island Lager is brewed to our original recipe, which combines all-natural ingredients to produce its distinct hop flavour. The same clean, refreshing taste that put us on the map in ’84 still makes this one a local favourite.

Single bottle sampled at a neighborhood pub. Fairly pale straw color with a quick-breaking soapy white head. Aroma of apples, grape candy, doughy pale malts and some floral hops. Rather standard fare much like what one encounters with most or all adjunct lagers, perhaps a hair more assertive. Ditto on the palate. More sweet white bread malts, apple pomace, a citric note vaguely reminiscent of lemons, perhaps less sweet than many mainstream lagers with a more pronounced malt flavor. The dryish finish is probably this brew's greatest asset, I am actually getting some gooseberry-like hop notes. All in all, decidedly "meh" and inoffensive. Sort of a textbook example of the pseudo-style "American premium lager". Perhaps one could gently suggest that a pub mate who insists on getting the least interesting lager in the joint every time you go out broaden his horizons, with this as a tentative foray into the scary world of "different".